Category Archives: Friends

Windows Vista & the Ventrilo Overlay

Posted by on December 27, 2008 2 comments

I picked up a copy of Warhammer Online this past week, and have been quite enjoying it. Enjoying it enough that I’ve joined a guild. So far they seem to be a pretty decent, if somewhat sarcastic and crass, group of people; I should fit right in. They require the use of Ventrilo for voice chat, which is a pretty reasonable requirement for a guild that’s going to do PvP combat.

There are some quirks with Ventrilo and Vista, however, and I wanted to make mention of them here in the hopes that they might be useful to other people. Note that these tips were only tested with Warhammer Online and they may or may not apply to other games, and while this was done on 64-bit Vista, both Ventrilo and Warhammer Online were the 32-bit versions so they should behave the same on 32-bit Vista. Your mileage may vary.

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In Soviet Russia, LiveJournal Blogs on You!

Posted by on December 5, 2007 1 comment

First off, apologies for this post’s title.  It had to be done, though.  On Monday, LiveJournal was sold to a Russian company.  When I first read about it, one eyebrow raised slightly, but I didn’t think much of it.  Then I started noticing comments coming in from my friends and colleagues talking about how they felt about it.

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D&D 3.5e Without Miniatures

Posted by on September 10, 2006 1 comment

One of the frequent complaints I hear about 3rd Edition (and 3.5) D&D is that you have to play it with miniatures. “It was designed to sell them,” a friend of mine bemoans, pointing to Attacks of Opportunity as the most damning evidence. I’ll admit that I did consider AoO to be so difficult without some sort of physical tactical gameplay aid that I’d generally not used them — they are an optional rule, after all, being labeled with such words as “can” and “may” in the Player’s Handbook. But I decided to see if there were other options.

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Words Are Weak

Posted by on December 12, 2005 1 comment

Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

A good friend and pillar of my peer group passed away this morning. He had lymphoma.

He will truely be missed, and the greatest heartfelt sorrows goes out towards his widow, who will receive every single last bit of help and strength I have to offer.

We love you, Derek and Kassi.